Bug 322775 – Segmentation fault when using New Message (Ctrl-N)

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Bug 322775 - Segmentation fault when using New Message (Ctrl-N)


Summary:	Segmentation fault when using New Message (Ctrl-N)


Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	gossip
Classification:	Deprecated
Component:	General
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal critical
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Gossip Maintainers
QA Contact:	Gossip Maintainers

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Reported:	2005-11-29 21:06 UTC by Brian Pepple
Modified:	2005-12-04 23:22 UTC

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Description Brian Pepple 2005-11-29 21:06:44 UTC

Description of the crash:
When attempting to send a new message to a contact by using the Ctrl-N
short-cut.  Gossip crashes.

Steps to reproduce the crash:
1. Without having a contact selected, select File->New Message (Ctrl-N).
2. When the contact list dialog is displayed, select the user id from
the drop-down box.
3. Watch Gossip crash.  D'oh!

Expected Results:
Opens a chat window.

How often does this happen?
Every time.

Additional Information:
I'm running CVS from 11-29-05.  My jabber account has transports setup,
but I tested this on another jabber account that doesn't have
transports, and experienced the same problem.

Debugging Information:

Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/gossip'

Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
`shared object read from target memory' has disappeared; keeping its
symbols.
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1208891712 (LWP 23522)]
0x00a33402 in __kernel_vsyscall ()

+ Trace 64336

Thread 1 (Thread -1208891712 (LWP 23522))

#0 __kernel_vsyscall
#1 __waitpid_nocancel
from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#2 libgnomeui_module_info_get
from /usr/lib/libgnomeui-2.so.0
#3 <signal handler called>
#4 g_type_check_instance_is_a
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#5 gossip_contact_get_name
at gossip-contact.c line 357
#6 g_completion_complete
from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#7 app_complete_name_idle
at gossip-app.c line 1559
#8 g_child_watch_add
from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#9 g_main_context_dispatch
from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#10 g_main_context_check
from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#11 g_main_loop_run
from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#12 gtk_main
from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#13 main
at gossip-main.c line 175

Comment 1 Martyn Russell 2005-11-29 21:50:52 UTC

Yea, I saw this tonight, and meant to do something about it but I am going to
rework this area a little so I didn't find time.

It crashes for me too.

I was going to do something which makes it easier to find your contacts and then
start a conversation with them.

Comment 2 Martyn Russell 2005-12-04 23:22:58 UTC

New implementation is now in CVS.